Tag: bully

Harlem Globetrotter Julian “Zeus” McClurkin spoke with over 300 students at a filled gym at Dallas Elementary School on Monday afternoon about the ABCs of bullying prevention. McClurkin visited as part of a Magic 93 contest that second grade teacher Kimberly Smith entered. The presentation was on a theme that…

After months of unpleasant suspense, President Donald Trump’s administration finally unveiled its replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act. As expected, the bill includes a provision to strip all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, a nonprofit low-income healthcare provider helping millions that conservatives have rallied to defund for ages. The…

A group of 10-16 year olds sat down to talk honestly about what it’s like to be bullied in 2017. While bullying has been a widespread issue for many years, kids today are dealing with a whole knew set of problems. Mila Barbuto, one of the children in the group,…

The video posted on Facebook has gone viral and shows kids bullying another kid along a sidewalk. A seemingly helpless student wearing a backpack was brutally tossed to the pavement and also endured a flurry of swear words in the video. As close to a dozen other students stood by,…

– School bullies held girl on the floor of a school bus and wrote the word “loser” on her forehead with a permanent marker – The distraught girl arrived home in tears and narrated the incident to her parents – Her parents in turn informed the school’s authorities, who conducted…

No parent would love to see or think about their child being bullied. Bullying has been a problem in schools across the world for as long as we can remember. It’s not a new phenomenon by any means; however, with the rise of social media over the last decade, it…

Bullying isn’t just about physical violence or emotional pain — it can impact kids’ educations, too. Kids bullied their entire school career have declining test scores, a growing dislike of school and failing confidence in their abilities, say the authors of a study published Monday in the Journal of Educational…

Lego’s new social network for kids lays the building blocks to prevent bullying. The company launched on Tuesday a free iOS and Android app called Lego Life. The social platform children under the age of 13 share photos of their Lego creations, watch animated videos and participate in building challenges….

Earlier this month Here & Now reported on the beating of a white 18 year old with schizophrenia. Many pointed out that his attackers were black, and attributed the incident to racism. But disabilities advocates, and others, saw something else: a very common attack on a vulnerable disabled person. Disabilities…

Bullying is a tough reality for many children. One out of every four students reports being bullied during the school year, according to the National Center for Educating Statistics. But the news gets worse. Studies show that children who have disabilities are two to three times more likely to be…